Listen to the new episode of Citizen Radio and subscribe to the free podcast. A brief history of Labor Day, DN producer attacked at RNC, followed by an interview with Jan Brewer on her accidental Obama endorsement, why you should hate Mitt Romney even more than you already do, a bizarre update on the South African miner massacre, [...]

Listen to the new Citizen Radio and subscribe to the free podcast. Happy Labor Day! Unemployment is still extremely high, and doesn’t count those who couldn’t find jobs, the under-employed, and minimum wage workers. The CIA once handed over a key Libyan rebel to Gaddafi, Drunken Uganda wishes a listener a very happy birthday, and a [...]

Over 100 years later, workers in Hershey’s plant describe the same inhumane process of “speeding up” described in Upton Sinclair’s Jungle: The Jungle, 1906: But let no one suppose that this superfluity of employees meant easier work for any one! On the contrary, the speeding-up seemed to be growing more savage all the time; they [...]

Oh, hello. I’ve been somewhat MIA the last few days because I’m currently in Seattle for Bumbershoot (Citizen Radio co-host Jamie Kilstein is performing in the festival). I’m not a music reviewer, so my inarticulate summary of my experience thus far translates: Edward Sharpe = AWESOME! Other than dancing like a dirty hippy to a [...]